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Trauma & Nervous System
Trauma responses, nervous system collapse, testing, override.


Bypass Culture: Why Everything Feels Fake, but No One’s Lying
Bypass Culture is what emerges when a society learns to replicate the appearance of emotional honesty without the underlying presence that makes it real.

Teralyn Lumley-Bolyard
May 214 min read


Nature Will Extract What You Refuse To Offer
Modern dating discourse treats hypergamy like manipulation, but biology tells a deeper story. What looks like exploitation is often a fallback protocol. What we call “hookup culture” may be nature's way of salvaging a future. This lecture-formatted essay maps the anatomy of extraction—and what it costs both men and women when coherence fails.

Teralyn Lumley-Bolyard
May 105 min read
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